Females: How many calories are you eating daily?

I am eating 1,600 a day. I usually do not eat my burn calories back. On occasion I will though.

I am no professional, but I think you are eating way too little, especially for your age.

I usually eat around 600 or 700 calories, 400 or less if it's a good day for me.

I usually eat around 1200/day, sometimes a bit less sometimes a little more. This is not because of goals or anything, it is just how I normally eat. I saw a dietician yesterday and she told me that this is fine since I have energy and am not hungry, but not to eat much less than that, and to try and eat back at least part of my exercise calories. I have worked hard in the last month or two to add more protein and fat to my meals and to eat more regularly (including breakfast) so I think that is helping with my weight loss.

It's interesting to see the range here!

5'9, 29 years old, 167 lbs currently

I eat 2100 - 2400 calories

because I don't have money, I usually don't reach 1200, but I wish I could...

I am 5'4", currently 142 lbs, 29 years old. My goal is set at 1 lb per week which gives me a goal of 1210 per day. I eat at least 1200 on non-exercise days. On days that I do exercise, I normally eat closer to 1600-1800 b/c I do eat most of my exercise calories. And I have had steady success at about the rate I am trying to lose. 23 lbs less than 3.5 months so far. (started the program shooting for 2 lbs per week at 1200, recently adjusted goal to 1 lb per week at 1210).

I usually eat between 1200 and 1500 cals a day. Whether I eat back what I burned that day or not usually just depends on how I feel. If I am hungry and it's not too late at night, I do. If I am not hungry, I don't.

^^This^^

I'm 58, 5'2" calorie allowance 1200. Eat 1500 or 1600, always eat my exercise calories. Have lost 16 lbs.
Love not being hungry!

About 1200, and I don't eat back my calories burned. I'm new to this.
I find that I am getting a little cranky, ut for the most part I eat the same thing every day.

heya hun, if you're getting cranky then perhaps you need to eat your exercise calories back - keep some of that sanity

*not starting an exercise calories war here, just making a suggestion xxx *

I'm 5'5, 139 pounds, and I eat between 1,100 and 1,500 daily, depending on the amount of exercise I do that day.

I average 1,250-1,300. Don't eat back my exercise cals and work out on average 30 or so minutes a day. I figure if it is part of the way I live, why eat back the calories. -I zig zag a ton! My weight has been a stable 118 pounds - 5'7in and I'm happy with that. If I wanted to loose I'd probably eat 1,000-1,200...maybe I have a slow metabolism? But I feel good and am satisfied with how much I eat I've been counting calories for a very long long time and know that 1,300-1,400 calories I maintain, 1,600 up I gain, 1,000 ish I get smaller.

Considering you're at the LOWEST weight to be considered healthy for your height it's not surprising that you're maintaining on a weight loss amount. 1250-1300 calories is "dieting" for MOST people and should be for you as well but I suspect that this is an unnaturally low weight for your body and it simply isn't losing because you're already at a dangerously low weight/body fat for your height.

Her weight is no where near "unnaturally" and "dangerously low." Where are you getting your information, and where do you get off thinking it's acceptable to jump to all of these judgmental conclusions? <.<

Really looking at exactly everything I eat I may be closer to 1,500 calories. I am not very accurate so I aim low knowing I'll eat a few extra more. I try to track everything but I'm a grazer and a nibbler. Also very ADD So yeah. Def. eating enough.

For me it's usually between 800 - 1400 a day, depending on my mood etc etc. I don't get my TOM very often so that doesn't usually effect me much. And when I do, I lose my appetite. I hate eating my exercise calories because to me it feels as though I've spent all that time exercising and burning calories only to eat them back. If anything it makes me feel worse, and when I eat over 1200 calories I freak the **** out.

Hon - do you realize that you are very literally starving yourself? If I've done the math correctly (and I think I have) at 161kg and 6 feet tall, your daily calorie expenditure before any exercise is nearly 3200 calories a day - you are barely netting 25% of that. MFP gives you a goal of 1970 and that should be a little more than a 2 pound per week loss, so even if you weren't eating back your exercise calories you could more than DOUBLE what you're eating now.

between 1500-1800 a day, never less unless i'm sick or something.

Yes i eat my exercise calories.

I am 44 weigh 120 am 5'5. Trying to lose 10 lbs. My calorie budget daily is 1061. I burn 500 calories in circuit training 5 days a week. You do NOT add those calories back into your budget! I am using Herbalife to help with my weight loss. 2 shakes and 1 meal daily.

wow you have lost alot!!! Awesome. I eat back half of my exercise points and am not losing. Only lost 2 lbs in a month horrible. Guess everyones body is different.

Its really important that you are burning more calories than you are eating. The way that MFP is set up doesn't really help us with that, but your net calories should be low.